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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Liberal Cohen Critics’ Disdain Misdirected

It seems that liberals have finally had their fill of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen.
As fun as it might be to watch the left cannibalize one of their own, they’re
doing it for all the wrong reasons.

Writing
about Chris Christie’s TEA Party problem, Cohen followed much of the
liberal playbook. Heck, along with attacking the TEA Party (Cohen
admitted, “Why can’t intelligent liberals see I’m only mirroring their
loathing of the Tea Party?”), he even insulted Sarah Palin. What got him in
trouble with his pals is the last sentence of this paragraph:

“Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about
the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government,
about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be
the avant-garde. People with
conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect
of New York —
a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children.”

Cohen was summarily deemed a racist across the spectrum of
the liberal media. Many calls for his firing ensued. The Huffington Post
pleaded “Dear Washington Post: Please Fire This Man.” Salon.com tweeted,
“His horrifying new column reminds
us why old racists like Richard Cohen need to be fired.” ThinkProgress
declared, “Even if Richard Cohen Isn’t Racist, He’s Incompetent.”

Following the
outrage, Cohen insisted (as his quote above indicates) that he is a good
liberal and that he has been grossly misinterpreted. That is probably the case.
However, in all of their caterwauling over Cohen’s supposed racist comment,
liberals have missed a more blatant, albeit subtle, betrayal of left-wing
doctrine.

Immediately
following the sentence that got him in so much trouble, Cohen asked “Should I
mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?”

“Used to be a
lesbian?” Given the worldview of modern liberalism, how is that possible? Isn’t
homosexuality supposedly innate (genetic) and unchangeable? And if it is
possible to turn from homosexuality (which it is), why would today’s liberals
want such as that bandied about in the pages of the Washington Post?

In fact, even
Chris Christie himself, the focus of Cohen’s column, in August of this year
signed a bill into law that banned licensed therapists from performing
homosexual conversion therapy. New Jersey
became the second state (after California)
to ban this practice.

After signing the
law, Christie parroted typical liberal speak (joining such esteemed company as
Lady Gaga), saying that he believed that people are born gay and that
homosexuality is not a sin. I wonder if Ms. McCray’s conversion was as a result
of therapy.

McCray has
addressed this issue and said that she once “identified” as a lesbian, but, according
to Out.com, “renounced her lesbian lifestyle after meeting her
husband.” So, after meeting Mr. Right (or course, given de Blasio’s politics, “Mr. Left” is more
appropriate) Ms. Mcray decides that she’s no longer a lesbian.

There is nothing
at all surprising about this. As renowned psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Dr.
Jeffrey Satinover noted over a decade ago, the
idea of “sexual orientation” is pure fiction. He refers to a 1994 University of Chicago study which states, “…it is
patently false that homosexuality is a uniform attribute across individuals,
that it is stable over time, and that it can be easily measured.”

Dr. Satinover
adds that, “Studies across the globe that have now sampled over 100,000
individuals have found the same. We now know that in the majority of both men
and women, ‘homosexuality,’ as defined by any scientifically rigorous criteria,
spontaneously tends to ‘mutate’ into heterosexuality over the course of a
lifetime.”

In 2003, testifying before the Massachusetts
Senate Judicial Committee, as they were considering the legalization of gay
marriage, Dr. Satinover stated that the belief that homosexuality is a genetic
and unchangeable condition is not “even remotely true.”He continued, “however widely believed (these
claims) may have become; the evidence of the kind that ‘everyone knows’ simply
does not exist; even a cursory examination of the actual sources behind these
claims will reveal a very strong preponderance of evidence to precisely the
contrary; the claims are simply fiction.”

C.S. Lewis wrote in
the mid 1940s that “…you and I, for the last twenty years, have been fed all
day long on good solid lies about sex. We have been told, till one is sick of
hearing it, that sexual desire is in the same state as any of our other natural
desires…Our warped natures, the devils who tempt us, and all the contemporary
propaganda for lust, combine to make us feel that the desires we are resisting
are so ‘natural,’ so ‘healthy,’ and so reasonable, that it is almost perverse
and abnormal to resist them.”

Seven decades later,
the lies persist. So much so that pornography, prostitution, same-sex marriage,
“transgenderism,” and the like enjoy not only widespread support among the
populace, but also legal protection. Laws banning such behavior have been
virtually wiped from our legal system. As recently as the early 1960s, every
state in the U.S.
had laws against homosexual behavior (sodomy). (Thomas Jefferson himself
authored an anti-sodomy law for the state of Virginia.)

Also, as recently as 1986, upholding Georgia’s
anti-sodomy law, the U.S. Supreme Court declared, “Proscriptions against
[homosexual] conduct have ancient roots. Sodomy was a criminal offense at
common law and was forbidden by the laws of the original 13 States when they
ratified the Bill of Rights. . . . In fact, until 1961, all 50 States outlawed
sodomy, and today, 24 States and the District
of Columbia continue to provide criminal penalties
for sodomy performed in private and between consenting adults. Against this
background, to claim that a right to engage in such conduct is ‘deeply rooted
in this Nation's history and tradition,’ or ‘implicit in the concept of ordered
liberty’ is, at best, facetious [silly].”

Of course, the Court reversed itself in Lawrence
vs. Texas in 2003, which nicely coincides with
when the first state in the U.S.
(Massachusetts)
legalized same-sex marriage. So in a matter of about four decades, the U.S. went from
laws against homosexual behavior to laws encouraging it. With 15 states joining
Massachusetts—Hawaii’s governor just signed a law legalizing same-sex marriage
that takes effect December 2, and the governor of Illinois is poised to sign a
similar law this week that will take effect in 2014—and in spite of any real
science to support such a position, the idea that homosexual behavior is normal,
innate, and unchangeable is pervasive.

What’s more, as noted above, such a position now also has
legal protection in two states. Just as with pornography, same-sex marriage,
and “transgenderism,” how long until other states follow? Never mind that there are countless
individuals like Ms. McCray (thanks for the publicity Mr. Cohen!) who have left
the homosexual/transgender lifestyle behind, and many others who wish to do so.

In mathematics and
philosophy, Ms. McCray is what is called a “counterexample.” And to prove a conjecture
(“homosexuality is genetic and unchangeable”) false, only a single
counterexample is necessary. Again, thank you Mr. Cohen.

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